The recent interception of drug couriers abroad is a sign that security arrangements at Guyana’s main international airport are flawed and according to opposition leader David Granger attention needs to be paid to training, supervision, remuneration and careful selection of law enforcement officers if the situation is to be improved.
Despite increased physical checks, use of the body scanner and use of bag scanners, persons with huge amounts of cocaine continue to slip out of the Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport (CJIA) Timehri, undetected. Numer-ous narcotics ranks from the Guyana Police Force and the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) are based at the airport to search for drugs and to ensure that they are not smuggled on to any aircraft.
Granger said that with respect to what is happening at the airport one has to look at the human element because irrespective of how many machines are provided to combat the
